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ST ANN — Municipal council

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Jamaica · ST ANN · municipal · Municipal councilJM-C-ST-ANN

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Ordinary council cycles; individual ward boundary and by-election audit remains Full-council ordinary returns aggregate the underlying ward ballots. Known ward by-elections are reported separately and do not become artificial whole-council vote events.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
ST ANN
Next election
2028-02
Linked upcoming event
next-6682930a621f7281a1d1cd05
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2028-02 is expected (not formally called). Month precision — no calendar day supplied. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2024-02-26

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • JLP50.6%
  • PNP48.5%
  • Independent — BENSONTON (IND A)0.8%
Results for event-22e56cefef4d223a22a9afab
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPjamaica/S975fca3559/202421,52050.6%11Recorded
PNPjamaica/S975fca3559/202420,62748.5%5Recorded
Independent — BENSONTON (IND A)jamaica/S975fca3559/20243430.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-11-28

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • JLP52.4%
  • PNP43.5%
  • Independent — MONEAGUE (INDH)1.9%
  • Independent — CLAREMONT (INDH)1.7%
  • Independent — ALEXANDRIA (INDH)0.3%
  • Independent — DRY HARBOUR (INDB)0.3%
  • Independent — DRY HARBOUR (INDH)0.0%
Results for event-500d15331929364931c898be
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPjamaica/S375abb1313/201621,47452.4%11Recorded
PNPjamaica/S375abb1313/201617,81943.5%5Recorded
Independent — MONEAGUE (INDH)jamaica/S375abb1313/20167891.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Independent — CLAREMONT (INDH)jamaica/S375abb1313/20166871.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Independent — ALEXANDRIA (INDH)jamaica/S375abb1313/20161090.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Independent — DRY HARBOUR (INDB)jamaica/S375abb1313/20161030.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Independent — DRY HARBOUR (INDH)jamaica/S375abb1313/201690%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2012-03-26

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PNP57.1%
  • JLP42.3%
  • Independent — BROWN'S TOWN (IND)0.6%
Results for event-0b69a6fcd20ad2432d21c914
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PNPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/201223,04657.1%11Recorded
JLPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/201217,08642.3%5Recorded
Independent — BROWN'S TOWN (IND)jamaica/S60dfdaaaba/20122490.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

72.940–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Provisional imported-series comparison; actual-event review open

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=2.1016709814073877, oldest_gap=14.759416557291793, previous_gap=8.916808977799462

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

5.07percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). JLP, PNP and Other (minor parties and independents). An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["JLP","PNP","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[50.647211108496116,48.54554012708873,0.8072487644151565],[52.3883874115638,43.471578433764336,4.140034154671871],[42.31197840568584,57.071394962977635,0.6166266313365196]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

13.6percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). JLP, PNP and Other (minor parties and independents). An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Previous interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["JLP","PNP","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[50.647211108496116,48.54554012708873,0.8072487644151565],[52.3883874115638,43.471578433764336,4.140034154671871],[42.31197840568584,57.071394962977635,0.6166266313365196]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

9.34percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). JLP, PNP and Other (minor parties and independents). An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Both intervals mean

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["JLP","PNP","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[50.647211108496116,48.54554012708873,0.8072487644151565],[52.3883874115638,43.471578433764336,4.140034154671871],[42.31197840568584,57.071394962977635,0.6166266313365196]]

Source-reported control: Unverified. Current tenure requires separate dated evidence.

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

No officeholder observation supplied.

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

No open research issues attached to this office.

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “ST ANN — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/JM-C-ST-ANN. Sources: jamaica--url-b1bfddcea4443c34b2ed3119, jamaica--url-74b9a8a4565d376c1ee70961, jamaica--url-5eba0e7de6d09ab6469c4a9b, jamaica--S975fca3559, jamaica--S375abb1313, jamaica--S60dfdaaaba.